
Listen Again: Work, Play, Rest - Part 1
TED Radio Hour
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Creating Room in a Person's Life
A person's ability to break into the technology industry has nothing to do with their ability to learn joba script or whether they were good at math in the fifth grade. To create room in a person's life, you really have to attack the things that stand in the way of that time. Of those entering our career programmes, over 80 % earn technical employment. These are folks leaving restaurant, retail, factory and field labor earning on average, less than 20 thousand dollars a year,. exiting the programs earning 60000 dollars per year. We've turned a long held idea on its head. The us. Spends a trillion dollars skilling up a work force for this country. We apply for
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